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From epidemiological synergy to public health policy and practice: the contribution of other sexually transmitted diseases to sexual transmission of HIV infection.

Sexually Transmitted Infections, 1999
OBJECTIVES: To review the scientific data on the role of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in sexual transmission of HIV infection and discuss the implications of these findings for HIV and STD prevention policy and practice.
Douglas T. Fleming, J. Wasserheit
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Population knowledge and awareness of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance: results from national household survey 2019 and changes from 2017

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Lack of knowledge and awareness on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can result in irrational use of antibiotics, which is one of the major drivers of AMR.
Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Sunicha Chanvatik, Hathairat Kosiyaporn, Supapat Kirivan, Wanwisa Kaewkhankhaeng, Apichart Thunyahan, Angkana Lekagul   +6 more
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Powering population health research: Considerations for plausible and actionable effect sizes [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Evidence for Action (E4A), a signature program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, funds investigator-initiated research on the impacts of social programs and policies on population health and health inequities. Across thousands of letters of intent and full proposals E4A has received since 2015, one of the most common methodological challenges ...
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How do external donors influence national health policy processes? Experiences of domestic policy actors in Cambodia and Pakistan

Health Policy and Planning, 2017
Although concerns have historically been raised about the influence of external donors on health policy process in recipient countries, remarkably few studies have investigated perspectives and experiences of domestic policymakers and advisers.
M. Khan, A. Meghani, Marco Liverani, Imara Roychowdhury, J. Parkhurst   +4 more
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Advantages of the net benefit regression framework for trial-based economic evaluations of cancer treatments: an example from the Canadian Cancer Trials Group CO.17 trial

BMC Cancer, 2019
Background Economic evaluations commonly accompany trials of new treatments or interventions; however, regression methods and their corresponding advantages for the analysis of cost-effectiveness data are not widely appreciated.
Jeffrey S. Hoch, Annette Hay, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Kednapa Thavorn, Natasha B. Leighl, Dongsheng Tu, Logan Trenaman, Carolyn S. Dewa, Chris O’Callaghan, Joseph Pater, Derek Jonker, Bingshu E. Chen, Nicole Mittmann   +12 more
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Is Health Insurance Associated with Health Service Utilization and Economic Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases on Households in Vietnam?

Health Systems & Reform, 2020
The rising burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in developing countries has caused high out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending leading to many households suffering Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE).
Nguyen Hoang Giang, Tran Thi Mai Oanh, Khuong Anh Tuan, Phan Hong Van, Rohan Jayasuriya   +4 more
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Economic burden of herpes zoster in Latin America: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
This systematic review describes herpes zoster (HZ) economic burden in terms of healthcare resource use and cost outcomes in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region.
Dario Javier Balan, Ariel Bardach, Carolina Palermo, Tomás Alconada, Macarena Sandoval, Javier Nieto Guevara, Jorge Gomez, Agustin Ciapponi   +7 more
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Policy-Practice Contradiction: Case of Cloud Computing Adoption in the Malawi Health Sector [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
This paper examines the dynamics of policy implementation and how policy contradicts reality on the ground when it comes to practice. The paper finds that despite having well-laid out policy; the actual practice is contrary. Taking data storage policy within the Ministry of Health in Malawi as a case study, the paper highlights that the contextual ...
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Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Health Policy Assessment: A Tutorial

PharmacoEconomics (Auckland), 2016
Health policy instruments such as the public financing of health technologies (e.g., new drugs, vaccines) entail consequences in multiple domains. Fundamentally, public health policies aim at increasing the uptake of effective and efficient interventions
S. Verguet, Jane J. Kim, D. Jamison
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Modeling National Latent Socioeconomic Health and Examination of Policy Effects via Causal Inference [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
This research develops a socioeconomic health index for nations through a model-based approach which incorporates spatial dependence and examines the impact of a policy through a causal modeling framework. As the gross domestic product (GDP) has been regarded as a dated measure and tool for benchmarking a nation's economic performance, there has been a
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